Human uterus mb-code 2491329 View of the entrance to

View of the entrance to Gray's Inn Hall

HOFMANN PH

As a player

on a rough sea

In the background a figure shovels snow from a rooftop onto a man's head causing him to lose his umbrella

Human uterus mb-code 2491329 View of the entrance toPlate 8 from the paper 'On the passage of the ovum from the ovaria to the uterus in women' by Everard Home, Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, vol. 107 (1817), pp. 252 261. The painting is taken from the body of an anonymous 21 year old servant maid who died on 15 January 1817, according to Clift, in a very early stage of pregnancy. The work is inscribed with publication and plate details. Signed lower left 'Franz Bauer del:'. Royal